Hezbollah said Wednesday it attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first strike since pager blasts in Lebanon wounded thousands, escalating fears of Middle-east war.
Lebanon's Middle East Airlines and Lufthansa have suspended flights on certain air routes delaying others due to insurance risks amid fears of a fullscale war.
Govt has decided to delay daylight savings time until 20 April, but influential Maronite Church, businesses & other organisations have said they won't cooperate.
The cause of the Beirut port explosion was ammonium nitrate from a ship abandoned in 2013. Hazardous material is shipped across the world daily — often illegally.
The explosion in Beirut couldn’t have come at a worse time for Lebanon, which is enduring its deepest political and financial crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
Customs officials asked judicial authorities at least twice since 2014 to issue orders for the highly inflammable substance to be confiscated or re-exported.
Already struggling with its worst financial crisis and a resurgent Covid, the explosion, that shut down a major port for the import-reliant Lebanon, is nothing short of a calamity.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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